Re: [PATCH] Userspace tuner

Bill Davidsen
2007-09-17T22:02:55Z

Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> Well, I'd like to see Linus' opinion about this, because while
> programmers keep discussing this, users are waiting forever... so if
> Markus has a concrete and better solution, why don't use it?
>
> And as far as I know, Markus is the programmer who is most
> interested in this code. I didn't see anybody else in the world doing
> his work...
>
> And I always had a impression that if most of things could be
> done in user space, than it will be better (for example, devfs -> udev).
> Why do everything in kernel space? Lets put *less* code in the kernel,
> not more code. And besides that, code in user space can be changed
> easily. Code in kernel has to wait a long time for Linus to accept (*if*
> he accepts).
>
The problem with user space drivers is that it encourages binary only
drivers, drivers which work only for a limited set of hardware, and
other means to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary
modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and
worse of same.

Linus will have an opinion, no doubt.

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